What’s at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue again? Maybe Sarah Palin used Google Maps

29.09.2014/10.50

I see the media are laughing at Sarah Palin when she referred to the White House being at 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue. And yet no one laughed at Google in 2009 when it didn’t know what was at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Google Maps was new to me then and I installed it. I had […]

An expatriate’s view of Occupy Central and what Hong Kong wants

/10.31

Equal access: an audio recording of this blog post can be found here. I know I’m not alone among expats watching the Occupy Central movements in Hong Kong. More than the handover in 1997, it’s been making very compelling live television, because this isn’t about politicians and royalty, but about everyday Hong Kong people. […]

Brand Kim Dotcom: what has changed?

22.09.2014/12.22

Equal access: an audio recording of this blog post can be found here. It’s disturbing to see so many Kim Dotcom jokes post-General Election, with plenty of Kiwis happy to ridicule the bloke because of Internet Mana’s terrible showing in the polls, and the loss of Hone Harawira’s seat. Yet not too long ago, […]

About Labour, I was nearly on the money in May

20.09.2014/10.36

In May, I wrote (in the wake of the Oravida scandal): The problem with all of this is: where’s Labour, in the midst of the greatest gift an opposition has been given for years? One friend of a friend noted that maybe Labour shouldn’t be attacking, because we Kiwis don’t like whingers. It is […]

Reacting to AJE’s Broken Dreams: are there parallels between GM and Boeing’s 787?

12.09.2014/03.10

Simpsons fans should be able to connect the above scene with the post below. I’m sure some of you watched the al-Jazeera English documentary this week on the Boeing 787, and how there are safety concerns over the models built in South Carolina. In summary, ‘Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit and reporter Will Jordan investigate Boeing’s […]